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Question 1

enclosure Movement

Answer 1

The enclosure movement was this: wealthy farmers bought land from small farmers, then benefited from economies of scale in farming huge tracts of land. The enclosure movement led to improved crop production, such as the rotation of crops.Jun 28, 2016

Question 2

crop rotation

Answer 2

the action of rotating around an axis or center.
“the moon moves in the same direction as the earth’s rotation”
synonyms: revolving, turning, spinning, gyration, circling More
the action or system of rotating crops.
noun: crop rotation

Question 3

industrial revolution

Answer 3

The Industrial Revolution is the name given the movement in which machines changed people’s way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the time of the American Revolution, the people of England began to use machines to make cloth and steam engines to run the machines.

Question 4

Factors of Production

Answer 4

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The factors of production are resources that are the building blocks of the economy; they are what people use to produce goods and services. Economists divide the factors of production into four categories: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.Aug 9, 2012

Question 5

mechanization

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Mechanization or mechanisation (British English) is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery.

Question 6

Factory systems

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The factory system is a method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labour.

Question 7

cottage Industry

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a business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person’s home

Question 8

entrepreneur

Answer 8

a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

Question 9

tenements

Answer 9

1. a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
2. a piece of land held by an owner.

Question 10

Mass Production

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“Mass production”, “flow production” or “continuous production” is the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines.

Question 11

Fordism

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Fordism is a term widely used to describe (1) the system of mass production that was pioneered in the early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company or (2) the typical postwar mode of economic growth and its associated political and social order in advanced capitalism.May 17, 2016

Question 12

Corporation

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a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

Question 13

monopoly

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1.
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
“his likely motive was to protect his regional monopoly on furs”
2.
trademark
a board game in which players engage in simulated property and financial dealings using imitation money. It was invented in the US and the name was coined by Charles Darrow c. 1935.

Question 14

strikes

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1.hit forcibly and deliberately with one’s hand or a weapon or other implement.
“he raised his hand, as if to strike me”
synonyms: bang, beat, hit; More
2.(of a disaster, disease, or other unwelcome phenomenon) occur suddenly and have harmful or damaging effects on.

Question 15

Unions

Answer 15

the action or fact of joining or being joined, especially in a political context.
“he was opposed to closer political or economic union with Europe”
synonyms: unification, uniting, joining, merging, merger, fusion, fusing, amalgamation, coalition, combination, synthesis, blend, blending, mingling; More

Question 16

collective

Answer 16

done by people acting as a group.

Question 17

bargaining

Answer 17

negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction.
“he bargained with the city council to rent the stadium”
synonyms: haggle, negotiate, discuss terms, hold talks, deal, barter, dicker; formaltreat
“they bargained over the contract”
part with something after negotiation but get little or nothing in return.
“his determination not to bargain away any of the province’s existing economic powers”
be prepared for; expect.
“I got more information than I’d bargained for”
synonyms: expect, anticipate, be prepared for, allow for, plan for, reckon with, take into account, take into consideration, contemplate, imagine, envisage, foresee, predict; More

Question 18

Eli Whitney

Answer 18

Whitney is an American indie-rock band from Chicago, which formed in 2015 and is signed to Secretly Canadian. The band was formed shortly after the breakup of member Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich’s band Smith Westerns in late 2014. Wikipedia

Question 19

James watt

Answer 19

James Watt FRS FRSE was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to

Question 20

Henry bessesmer

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Sir Henry Bessemer, (born Jan. 19, 1813, Charlton, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died March 15, 1898, London), inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856), leading to the development of the Bessemer converter. He was knighted in 1879.May 4, 1999

Question 21

Richard arkwright

Answer 21

Sir Richard Arkwright was an inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.